Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

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ASSETS (ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)
The premier academic conference on accessible computing, organized by ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing). ASSETS began as a research conference planned by SIGCAPH (the pred…
Critical Disability Studies (CDS)
An interdisciplinary academic field that examines disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon rather than solely a medical condition. Critical disability studies analyzes how disability…
ICCHP (International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs)
A biennial research conference on technology for people with disabilities, held in Europe since 1989. ICCHP provides a peer-reviewed academic venue for accessibility research with a strong European pe…
Trace Center (Trace Research and Development Center)
A leading accessibility research center originally founded at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, now at the University of Maryland. The Trace Center pioneered foundational work in accessible…
W4A (International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Web for All)
An annual research conference focused specifically on web accessibility, held in conjunction with the World Wide Web Conference (WWW/TheWebConf). W4A brings together researchers studying how to make t…